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I suppose my comment could easily have been taken out of context. I have been to foreign countries and i have read their newspapers, and i know there is a lot more and better content. I am well aware that most american media whether television or newspaper have been and will continue to censor the news. Frankly, I find it horrible despicable and i think the United States is already eroding its own liberties and freedoms.
Re:LOTR will never get best picture
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Insensitive?? That book was named before the friggin buildings were built. Why should it have to change its name because some psychos blew up the buildings that stole its name?
We can't suddenly start censoring reality because something horribly happened. If we did that we are injuring our freedoms as Americans. And if we lose these freedoms then what is left of the country? The power of the United States comes from the incredibly smart men who drafyted the constitution and design our government. They gave us what no other country had, freedom. If that freedom is taken away then all is lost, the initials U-S-A mean nothing, the terrorists will have won.
First of all many of you have commented on the possibility of some large law firm trying to shutdown the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse. I find this highly unlikely. It is run by divisions of the Harvard, Standford and Berkley Law Schools, whom have incredibly power. I doubt its possible for any law firm to intimidate Harvard. Its current alumni consist of 5 of the 9 supreme court justices and many members of Congress. So needless to say if any legal action was attempted against this site it would be met with a very powerful defense.
We all know that the shuttle program and releated space programs cost extraordinary large amounts to maintain and develop. There is one person who could easily by the program and have the funds to support it. Bill Gates! Now I know most of you are saying "Bill Gateswould never do that he's a cheap bastard". And your right normally he wouldn't do it, its a huge money hole. However, there might be a way to convince him to buy it nonetheless. Perhaps if you damn linux zealots would shut up about how much better linux is than Windows, closed source developers might ACTUALLY listen to you. Now if you guys chose to support Bill Gates and throw all your influence (sarcasm) behind him and microsoft he might return the favor and make our nerd dreams come true.
I don't think you really have to worry about slashdotting NASA. I'm pretty sure they got a hefty amount of bandwidth. And chances are also that its not gunna get that many hits at midnight e.s.t
Although they did title the section of the FAQ Artists will get paid I'm doubtful that they actually will. Napster will offer artists and labels tools to register as rights holders and get paid for sharing their music on Napster. Artists and other rights holders can set rules for how their music files are used, check their account status online, and receive quarterly statements.
I'm not a lawyer but i'm pretty sure that the rights to most music is held by the big record companies. Therefore those few independant artists will actually get paid, but i'm betting the ones already signed to record labels won't see much of that subscription fee.
I'm surprised he didn't predict that Linus Torvalds would be elected head of the UN, and linux would be installed ona satellite thus rendering us the ability to communicate to alien species.
I doubt that the CIA/FBI/NSA even uses windows XP for any sort of confidential information. Most like they're still running the nearly bug free Windows NT, or some incarnation of unix.
From the DoJ site:
"Bandwidth, through the joint efforts of the Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS), the Environmental Protection Agency Office of Inspector General (EPA-OIG), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), supervised by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Nevada, created a 'warez' site, controlled and monitored by the undercover operation, as a means of attracting predicated targets involved with the distribution of pirated software. "
I can see the FBI and the DoJ being involved in this operation, but why the hell was the enviromental protection agency have to do with this? The piracy of corprate software has nothing to do plants or air pollution.
I'm sure the EPA was actually secretly dissolved by the Bush administration and was replaced by a DoJ brute squad using the same name.
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yo they do broadcast Sumo on ESPN2. I was flippin through the channels and was pretty surprsied to see it
Re:I looked into it and compared it with a Dreamca
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Out of curiosity why would your grandmother need to play DreamCast? Typically most 70+ females tend to stay away from video games. Grandma's drive at like 10 miles per hour. Could you imagine her trying to play Crazy Taxi? It would be a friggin nightmare!
Not that i would agree with doing thi, but I wonder if there have ever been any cases of suing a game company for creating an addicting game and ruining the gamer's life. I doubt that anyone could win such a case considering they can't even remotely try to pin 'violent tendencies' on 3D shooter manufacturers
why would we go all the way to pluto for water? its a hell of a lot closer to just goto Jupiter and get some of the water off Europa. A manned mission to pluto would really be a long way off. At the moment America would refuse to send one even to moon. I think it would be a much better use of our money if we sent more probes to mars.
Wait a sec. how do they do l33t speak in french... half the characters used it l33t speak for vowels are just accented french letters... So the words aren't gunna look much different
This headline and the linked photo are so completely absurd. Current telescopes still lack the power to resolve a star into anything more than a single point, let alone to a full size sphere which is capable of being eclipsed by a planet. Nowhere does the article mention anything about a photo. The picture in it is merely used to illustrate the concept of a planet.
Many of you have been complaining that.2% error is pretty bad, but there is a pretty damn easy way to fix this, just compute all the data twice, if you find that two bits don't match, calculate that bit again. Sure it halves the efficiency, but cosnidering how small they already are, and i assume, cheap, it doens't matter
I think we can all be sure that this is a hoax. But so what. This cesium actually sounds like a good operating system idea. I think it's the responsibility of MIT to start developing it.:)
I know people have already mention this on previous issues, but we are creating a world like ni the book 1984. After the recent tragedy we are suddenly censoring everything remotely violent. It is as if we are trying to erase these things from history. Its not like this is the first time that people have died before. The deaths of these people are not changed if suddenly we don't show violent shows on TV. Death is death. You cannot censor fate.
I believe the main reason why the iPaq has been so much more successful than other Pocket PCs is because it has been the first one to take advantage of the strong arm technology. It also sports a pretty cool case. Although the PC Card expansion sleave is a bit clunky it allows for wireless PCMCIA cards. Wireless LAN access is of course ideal for a PDA. I am very interested to see what HP will do with the iPaq ideally they will combine it the the best aspects of the Jordana.
I think most of you agree that if HPaq did decide to embrace Linux it would be pretty cool. But there are quite a few potential drawbacks of this. First of all it would mean the loss of quite a few jobs in Compaq and HP. Both companies have a pretty large developement staff which would not be entirely needed. Some would need to remain behind in order to produce a flavor of linux tailored to their systems. Imagine that if all of a sudden a wave of 60 year old Unix guru's were put out onto the street...
Frankly, most people would rather have stuff free than have to pay for it. This tendency is of course magnified on Slashdot, because of the Linux Community's ideals of free software. Now does it come as a surprise to any people that a company whose only busienss was selling games to a community that would rather pirate them, than have to go all the way out to the store to buy them, would quickly go out of business? It does not to me. As much was I would like to support a company like this, i would not spend the extra money to buy quake3 for linux when I already own the PC version.
just because the theme of a show might be outragous and absurd does not mean it shouldn't be brought back to televison years later. Besides doctor who the networks could bring back:
The Lone Ranger- Instead of fighting Indians he can fight Arabs
I Love Lucy- A reality show in which two contestants are forced to live in a small NYC apartment and experience zany adventures
Amos and Andy- No longer about a clueless police officer. Now about plice brutality in southern LA.
If the microsoft Anti trust lawsuit has showed us anything its that the government has very little power when it comes to the moderation of large companies. Although i am not the most informed person i cannot remember an instance in which the government was able to punish a wealthy company for 'crimes' they may have commited. The only successful attacks on companies only seem to come from individual lawsuits. Then again often the money transfered in these lawsuits is infinitesimal compared to the overall value of the company. What we really need is someone in power who is willing to enforce American business laws. It sure as hell isn't going to be Bush. He likes to believe he is a businessman.
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I suppose my comment could easily have been taken out of context. I have been to foreign countries and i have read their newspapers, and i know there is a lot more and better content. I am well aware that most american media whether television or newspaper have been and will continue to censor the news. Frankly, I find it horrible despicable and i think the United States is already eroding its own liberties and freedoms.
Insensitive?? That book was named before the friggin buildings were built. Why should it have to change its name because some psychos blew up the buildings that stole its name?
We can't suddenly start censoring reality because something horribly happened. If we did that we are injuring our freedoms as Americans. And if we lose these freedoms then what is left of the country? The power of the United States comes from the incredibly smart men who drafyted the constitution and design our government. They gave us what no other country had, freedom. If that freedom is taken away then all is lost, the initials U-S-A mean nothing, the terrorists will have won.
First of all many of you have commented on the possibility of some large law firm trying to shutdown the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse. I find this highly unlikely. It is run by divisions of the Harvard, Standford and Berkley Law Schools, whom have incredibly power. I doubt its possible for any law firm to intimidate Harvard. Its current alumni consist of 5 of the 9 supreme court justices and many members of Congress. So needless to say if any legal action was attempted against this site it would be met with a very powerful defense.
We all know that the shuttle program and releated space programs cost extraordinary large amounts to maintain and develop. There is one person who could easily by the program and have the funds to support it. Bill Gates! Now I know most of you are saying "Bill Gateswould never do that he's a cheap bastard". And your right normally he wouldn't do it, its a huge money hole. However, there might be a way to convince him to buy it nonetheless. Perhaps if you damn linux zealots would shut up about how much better linux is than Windows, closed source developers might ACTUALLY listen to you. Now if you guys chose to support Bill Gates and throw all your influence (sarcasm) behind him and microsoft he might return the favor and make our nerd dreams come true.
I don't think you really have to worry about slashdotting NASA. I'm pretty sure they got a hefty amount of bandwidth. And chances are also that its not gunna get that many hits at midnight e.s.t
Although they did title the section of the FAQ Artists will get paid I'm doubtful that they actually will.
Napster will offer artists and labels tools to register as rights holders and get paid for sharing their music on Napster. Artists and other rights holders can set rules for how their music files are used, check their account status online, and receive quarterly statements.
I'm not a lawyer but i'm pretty sure that the rights to most music is held by the big record companies. Therefore those few independant artists will actually get paid, but i'm betting the ones already signed to record labels won't see much of that subscription fee.
I'm surprised he didn't predict that Linus Torvalds would be elected head of the UN, and linux would be installed ona satellite thus rendering us the ability to communicate to alien species.
I doubt that the CIA/FBI/NSA even uses windows XP for any sort of confidential information. Most like they're still running the nearly bug free Windows NT, or some incarnation of unix.
From the DoJ site:
"Bandwidth, through the joint efforts of the Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS), the Environmental Protection Agency Office of Inspector General (EPA-OIG), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), supervised by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Nevada, created a 'warez' site, controlled and monitored by the undercover operation, as a means of attracting predicated targets involved with the distribution of pirated software. "
I can see the FBI and the DoJ being involved in this operation, but why the hell was the enviromental protection agency have to do with this? The piracy of corprate software has nothing to do plants or air pollution.
I'm sure the EPA was actually secretly dissolved by the Bush administration and was replaced by a DoJ brute squad using the same name.
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yo they do broadcast Sumo on ESPN2. I was flippin through the channels and was pretty surprsied to see it
Out of curiosity why would your grandmother need to play DreamCast? Typically most 70+ females tend to stay away from video games. Grandma's drive at like 10 miles per hour. Could you imagine her trying to play Crazy Taxi? It would be a friggin nightmare!
Not that i would agree with doing thi, but I wonder if there have ever been any cases of suing a game company for creating an addicting game and ruining the gamer's life. I doubt that anyone could win such a case considering they can't even remotely try to pin 'violent tendencies' on 3D shooter manufacturers
How else are they gunna make all that anime into live cinema. You need animal-human hybrids.
why would we go all the way to pluto for water? its a hell of a lot closer to just goto Jupiter and get some of the water off Europa. A manned mission to pluto would really be a long way off. At the moment America would refuse to send one even to moon. I think it would be a much better use of our money if we sent more probes to mars.
Wait a sec. how do they do l33t speak in french... half the characters used it l33t speak for vowels are just accented french letters... So the words aren't gunna look much different
This headline and the linked photo are so completely absurd. Current telescopes still lack the power to resolve a star into anything more than a single point, let alone to a full size sphere which is capable of being eclipsed by a planet. Nowhere does the article mention anything about a photo. The picture in it is merely used to illustrate the concept of a planet.
Many of you have been complaining that .2% error is pretty bad, but there is a pretty damn easy way to fix this, just compute all the data twice, if you find that two bits don't match, calculate that bit again. Sure it halves the efficiency, but cosnidering how small they already are, and i assume, cheap, it doens't matter
I think we can all be sure that this is a hoax. But so what. This cesium actually sounds like a good operating system idea. I think it's the responsibility of MIT to start developing it. :)
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I know people have already mention this on previous issues, but we are creating a world like ni the book 1984. After the recent tragedy we are suddenly censoring everything remotely violent. It is as if we are trying to erase these things from history. Its not like this is the first time that people have died before. The deaths of these people are not changed if suddenly we don't show violent shows on TV. Death is death. You cannot censor fate.
I believe the main reason why the iPaq has been so much more successful than other Pocket PCs is because it has been the first one to take advantage of the strong arm technology. It also sports a pretty cool case. Although the PC Card expansion sleave is a bit clunky it allows for wireless PCMCIA cards. Wireless LAN access is of course ideal for a PDA. I am very interested to see what HP will do with the iPaq ideally they will combine it the the best aspects of the Jordana.
I think most of you agree that if HPaq did decide to embrace Linux it would be pretty cool. But there are quite a few potential drawbacks of this. First of all it would mean the loss of quite a few jobs in Compaq and HP. Both companies have a pretty large developement staff which would not be entirely needed. Some would need to remain behind in order to produce a flavor of linux tailored to their systems. Imagine that if all of a sudden a wave of 60 year old Unix guru's were put out onto the street...
Frankly, most people would rather have stuff free than have to pay for it. This tendency is of course magnified on Slashdot, because of the Linux Community's ideals of free software. Now does it come as a surprise to any people that a company whose only busienss was selling games to a community that would rather pirate them, than have to go all the way out to the store to buy them, would quickly go out of business? It does not to me. As much was I would like to support a company like this, i would not spend the extra money to buy quake3 for linux when I already own the PC version.
just because the theme of a show might be outragous and absurd does not mean it shouldn't be brought back to televison years later. Besides doctor who the networks could bring back: The Lone Ranger- Instead of fighting Indians he can fight Arabs I Love Lucy- A reality show in which two contestants are forced to live in a small NYC apartment and experience zany adventures Amos and Andy- No longer about a clueless police officer. Now about plice brutality in southern LA.
that was 90 years ago
If the microsoft Anti trust lawsuit has showed us anything its that the government has very little power when it comes to the moderation of large companies. Although i am not the most informed person i cannot remember an instance in which the government was able to punish a wealthy company for 'crimes' they may have commited. The only successful attacks on companies only seem to come from individual lawsuits. Then again often the money transfered in these lawsuits is infinitesimal compared to the overall value of the company. What we really need is someone in power who is willing to enforce American business laws. It sure as hell isn't going to be Bush. He likes to believe he is a businessman.
They will get a crappy dubbed version of FF to counter all the crappy dubbed versions of Jackie Chan movies that we get.